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| Introducing Egypt | |
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| Where to Go | |
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| History | |
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| Topics | |
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| The Egyptian Condition | |
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| Problems and Changes | |
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| Homeless Children | |
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| Islam | |
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| The Copts | |
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| Revolution in Egypt's Museums | |
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| Egypt's Grand Hotels | |
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| Planning Your Trip | |
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| When to Go | |
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| Climate | |
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| Festivals | |
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| Tourist Information | |
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| Embassies and Consulates | |
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| Entry Formalities | |
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| Disabled Travellers | |
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| Money and Banks | |
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| Geting There | |
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| By Air | |
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| By Sea | |
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| Overland | |
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| Getting Around | |
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| By Air | |
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| By Rail | |
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| By Car and Taxi | |
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| By Bus | |
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| By Service Taxi | |
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| By Thumb | |
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| Nile Cruises | |
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| Where to Stay | |
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| Tour and Cruise Operators | |
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| Practical A-Z | |
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| Conversion Tables | |
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| Baksheesh | |
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| Business Facilities | |
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| Children | |
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| Crime and Security | |
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| Electricity | |
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| Embassies in Egypt | |
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| Entertainment | |
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| Food and Drink | |
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| Health | |
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| Maps | |
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| Media | |
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| Opening Hours | |
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| Packing | |
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| Photography | |
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| Postal Services | |
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| Shopping | |
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| Sports and Activities | |
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| Students | |
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| Telephones | |
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| Toilets | |
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| Tourist Information in Egypt | |
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| Women | |
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| The Guide | |
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| Cairo | |
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| History | |
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| Getting to and from Cairo | |
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| Orientation | |
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| Getting around Cairo | |
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| The Nile, Old Cairo and Fustat | |
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| Medieval Cairo | |
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| Around the Citadel | |
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| Al-Azhar Park | |
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| The Southern Cemetery | |
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| Darb el Ahmar | |
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| The Islamic Museum | |
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| Bab Zuwayla to Khan el Khalili | |
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| To the Northern Walls | |
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| The City of the Dead | |
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| The Egyptian Museum | |
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| Shopping | |
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| Where to Stay | |
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| Eating Out | |
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| The Pyramids, Memphis and Saqqara | |
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| Some History: the Pyramid Age | |
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| The Great Pyramids of Giza | |
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| Memphis | |
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| Saqqara | |
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| Dahshur and Meidum | |
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| Maps and Plans | |
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| Egypt inside front cover | |
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| Central Cairo | |
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| Cairo Metro | |
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| Medieval Cairo | |
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| lbn Tulun Mosque | |
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| Medieval Cairo: South | |
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| Sultan Hassan Mosque | |
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| Medieval Cairo: North | |
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| Kahn el Khalili | |
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| Egyptain Museum | |
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| Pyramids, Memphis, Saqqara | |
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| Meidum Pyramid | |
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| The Pyramids of Giza | |
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| Great Pyramid of Cheops | |
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| Saqqara | |
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| Zoser's Funerary Complex | |
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| Zoser's Step Pyramid | |
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| Akhetaten | |
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| Abydos: Temple of Seti l | |
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| Dendera: Temple of Hathor | |
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| Luxor, Karnak and Thebes | |
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| Luxor | |
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| Temple of Luxor | |
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| Karnak | |
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| Valley of the Kings | |
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| Temple of Hatshepsut | |
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| Medinet Habu | |
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| Edfu: Temple of Hours | |
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| Temple of Kom Ombo | |
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| Aswan | |
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| Around Aswan | |
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| Philae | |
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| Nubia and Lake Nasser | |
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| The Western Desert | |
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| Wadi Natrun monasteries | |
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| The Suez Canal and the Red Sea | |
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| Sinai | |
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| The Nile Delta | |
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| Alexandria | |
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| Ancient Alexandria | |
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| Gareco-Roman Museum | |
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| Alexandria Corniche | |
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| The Fayyum | |
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| The Fayyum: the Garden of Egypt | |
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| Entering the Oasis | |
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| Medinet el Fayyum | |
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| Excursions Around the Oasis | |
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| The Road towards the Nile | |
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| The Nile Valley | |
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| Beni Suef to Minya | |
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| Minya and Surroundings | |
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| Amarna | |
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| South of Amarna: the Coptic Nile | |
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| Assiut | |
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| Sohag: Monasticism in Upper Egypt | |
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| Abydos and Dendera | |
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| Abydos: Shrine of Osiris | |
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| Dendera | |
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| Beyond &Qcidle;ena | |
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| Luxor, Karnak and the Necropolis of Thebes | |
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| The East Bank: Luxor and karnak | |
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| The Mummification Museum | |
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| Museum of Ancient Egyptain Art | |
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| Karnak | |
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| The West Bank: the Necropolis of Thebes | |
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| The Valley of the Kings | |
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| Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple at Deir el Bahri | |
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| The Ramesseum | |
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| The Valley of the Queens | |
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| Mortuary Temple of Ramses ill at Medinet Habu | |
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| The Works of Amenophis III | |
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| River Journey between Luxor and Aswan | |
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| Esna | |
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| Edfu | |
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| Kom Ombo: the Temple of Sobek and Haroeris | |
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| Aswan | |
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| The Town | |
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| Elephantine Island | |
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| The Botanical Island | |
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| The Noble Tombs | |
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| The Mausoleum of the Aga Khan | |
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| St Simeon's Monastery | |
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| Philae: Island of Isis | |
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| Nubia | |
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| Curising Lake Nasser from Aswan | |
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| New Sebua | |
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| New Amada | |
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| Qasr Ibrim | |
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| Abu Simbel | |
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| The Western Desert | |
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| Siwa Oasis | |
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| Kharga Oasis | |
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| Dakhla Oasis | |
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| Farafra Oasis | |
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| Bahariya Oasis | |
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| Monasteries of the Wadi Natrun | |
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| The City of St Means | |
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| The Mediterranean Cost West of Alexandria | |
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| Alamein | |
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| mersa Matruh | |
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| The Suez Canal and the Red Sea | |
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| The Suez Canal | |
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| To Ismailia | |
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| Port Said | |
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| Suez | |
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| The Monastery of St Antony | |
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| The Monastery of St Paul | |
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| South to Hurghada and Beyond | |
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| Sinai | |
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| Across Northern Sinai | |
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| El Arish | |
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| Into Southern Sinai | |
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| The Greek Orthodox Monastery of St Catherine | |
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| Gebel Musa | |
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| Gebel Katerin | |
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| Along the Gulf of Aqaba | |
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| Sharm el Sheikh, Na'ma Bay and Ras Mohammed | |
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| Dahab, Nuweiba and Taba | |
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| The Nile Delta | |
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| Ancient Sites in the Eastern Delta | |
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| Damietta and the Crusades | |
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| The Western Delta | |
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| Alexandria | |
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| History | |
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| Around Midan Saad Zaghloul | |
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| Literary Alexandria | |
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| The Roman Theatre and Baths at Kom el Dikka | |
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| The Graeco-Roman Museum | |
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| Alexandria National Museum | |
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| Around the Shallalat Gardens | |
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| Around Midan el Tahrir | |
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| The Turkish Town | |
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| On the Headland | |
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| The Pharos Lighthouse | |
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| Southwest Alexandria | |
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| Southeast Alexandria | |
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| The Bibliotheca Alexandrina | |
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| The Corniche to Montazah | |
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| East of Alexandria | |
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| Rosetta | |
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| Where to Stay | |
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| Eating Out | |
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| Reference | |
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| Language | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |